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U.S. Code as of:
01/19/04
Section 587. Funds apportioned to Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort Hall Reservation
(a) Distribution to enrollees
The funds apportioned to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort
Hall Reservation shall be placed to their credit in the United
States Treasury. Seventy-five percent of such funds shall be
distributed per capita to all persons born on or before and living
on December 18, 1971, who are duly enrolled on the roll prepared in
accordance with section 585(a) of this title.
(b) Determination of per capita share
The per capita shares shall be determined on the basis of the
number of persons eligible for per capitas and the number of
persons rejected for per capitas who have taken a timely appeal.
The shares of those persons whose appeals are denied shall revert
to the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to be expended for any purpose
designated by the tribal governing body and approved by the
Secretary.
(c) Trust for minors and persons under legal disability
Sums payable to enrollees or their heirs or legatees who are less
than twenty-one years of age or who are under a legal disability
shall be paid in accordance with such procedures, including the
establishment of trusts, as the Secretary of the Interior
determines appropriate to protect the best interests of such
persons.
(d) Remaining funds
The funds remaining after provision is made for the per capita
distribution may be used, advanced, expended, invested, or
reinvested for any purpose authorized by the tribal governing body
and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
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